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Miley Cyrus supports transgenders on Instagram

Instagram became her main base of social activism. In order to increase acceptance for “transgender and gender expansive people” she created #InstaPride hashtag on Monday.

Miley Cyrus expresses her strong support for transgender people on Instagram.

Instagram became her main base of social activism. In order to increase acceptance for “transgender and gender expansive people” shecreated #InstaPride hashtag on Monday.

This new project will show pictures and stories of ordinary people from all over the country who changed their gender. The project will last for 2 weeks and the first person to be told about is Leo Sheng. He is a 19-year-old student from Michigan. Young transgender thinks that his story will show people that the change is possible.

A photo posted by Instagram (@instagram) on Jun 15, 2015 at 6:22am PDT

Miley Cyrus created the Happy Hippie Foundation in 2014. It is aimed to give people strength by showing stories of others who faced same problems. The foundation also helps to “learn more about the power of acceptance, self-expression and freedom, no matter what our gender identity.”

According to Cyrus, #InstaPride is also created for lesbian, gay, bisexual and even homeless youth. Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen who took his life because of people’s nonacceptance, inspired famous singer to prevent such fatal incidents.

Amanda Petrusich wrote about Cyrus’s foundation in Paper magazine:

At 22, she’s perhaps her generation’s most unlikely social activist, and also one of its most powerful. Now she’s harnessing that influence to counter what she sees as an unacceptable reality: young people being persecuted and cast out for their sexuality